Lois McMaster Quotes

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Lois McMaster

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• Police
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• Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Best
  • Educated

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Think
  • Positive

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Know

• It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Police

• One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Home
  • Care
  • Military

• Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • Nice

• I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Good

• Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • Awesome

• When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Life
  • Pride

• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Evil
  • Military